Crashed Landing

This project began as a Megascans challenge that was given to me by my mentor, Bobby Rice. He ecouraged me to learn how to align images with scan data, as it would be a fun and strategic way to learn UE5's new tools. In order to get this scene to function properly, I needed to spend time to make the right adjustments. Using UE5's modeling kit, I made fine adjustments to the assets and their placement. After successfully matching the scene to the reference, I was finally given the go-ahead to make it my own. That meant adding my own assets, style and love to the scene and get it to where I imagined. This was a challenging piece as I was not only taking on new features like Nanite and Lumen, but I was also learning the engine itself. Features that I used to rely on like displacement and tessellation are no longer available, so I had to charge ahead with new methods to get the results I wanted. Also a special thanks to Anton Napierala, as his advice during my Demo Reel class at Gnomon really helped me get to the finish line.
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